Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has called for “all committee roll call votes be posted on their websites within 24 hours in tandem with an easily accessible online database of those votes.”
The Sunlight Foundation is among the signatories, not surprising given the committee chapter of the Open House Project report (or other similar attempts to give guidance to committees).
This reform is likely to be achieved incrementally, since committee chairs enjoy considerable independence from leadership. A strictly enforced rules change might be the best way to ensure broad compliance across all committees. In the meantime, we’ll have individual committes leading by example, like the House Financial Services Committee and their detailed listing of votes, markups, and amendments.
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